Category Archives: Reading Groups

More Volcanoes…and more collaborative investigations

Following the successful collaborative seminar between Ordered Universe, the National Glass Centre and the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham, we are holding another one (programme is in the link). This time the home team is Durham, and we’ll exploring more about Volcanology, the questions that Volcanologists ask and why. After a lunch

Ordered Universe in Early 2018: Events Update

2018 is set fair to be another busy year for the Ordered Universe team. In addition to submitting our first volume presenting the treatises On the Liberal Arts and On the Generation of Sounds, and the Middle English Seven Liberal Arts, to press, we have a wide range of other events organised. This is just a reminder of thoseContinue reading “Ordered Universe in Early 2018: Events Update”

New Year? New Symposium!

  The Ordered Universe team are throwing themselves into 2018 with another symposium that will focus on preparing our collaborative editions and translations of the shorter scientific works of Robert Grosseteste. The symposium will be held Jan 7th–10th 2018 at Pembroke College, Oxford, and this time around the team will be reading Robert Grosseteste’s De cometis, DeContinue reading “New Year? New Symposium!”

Never trust an historian…Ordered Universe Reading Group in Durham

  Well, by Hercules, as Seneca did, in fact, say, the Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham Chapter), finished this week its reading of Seneca’s Natural Questions. A very interesting experience, with our usual interdisciplinary mix. While the explanations for terrestrial waters might not have commanded universal interest, the books on Comets and on Cloud <Rain, Hail and Snow>Continue reading “Never trust an historian…Ordered Universe Reading Group in Durham”

Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)

A short notice to say that our informal reading group will be continuing during Easter term at Durham University. Our first meeting of the term will take place on the 22nd May at 3pm in Seminar Room 2 at Durham University’s Department of History. The reading group will examine the Natural Questions of Seneca (c.Continue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”

History of Science Seminar in Oxford

For those in Oxford for the coming term, Dr Philipp Nothaft and Dr Dimitri Levitin, are running a History of Science seminar at All Souls College. All are welcome, and it’s a fantastic array of speakers, from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period.

Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)

The Durham Ordered Universe group completes its second term next week. We had great fun with Adelard of Bath’s Natural Questions – from the smallest seed to the food which stars might eat, and Adelard’s fierce insistence on reason and the authority of, what he calls, the Arabic learning he had encountered on his travels inContinue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”

Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)

Just a short notice to say that our informal reading group will continue during Epiphany Term at Durham University. The first meeting of the term will be tomorrow, 17th January, from 15.00-17.00 in the Department of History, Seminar Room 1 and the programme for the term is embedded above. The Reading Group will continue toContinue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”

Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)

A short notice to say that an informal reading group will be taking place, under the aegis of the Ordered Universe, at Durham, over the rest of Michaelmas Term, and then again in Epiphany and Easter. The first meeting to register interest and draw up plans takes place tomorrow, at 16.00 in the Department ofContinue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”